On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 15:01 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Turner <dtur...@twopensource.com> writes: > > > Why is it impossible to free struct lock_files? I understand that they > > become part of a linked list, and that there's an atexit handler that > > goes over that list. But couldn't we just remove them from the linked > > list and then free them? > > I suspect that the code is worried about getting a signal, while it > is manipulating the linked list, and then cause the atexit handler > to walk a list that is in a broken state.
Actually, couldn't we just block signals with sigprocmask while manipulating the list? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
